"Eat All 9 Cups of Instant Noodles"... Man in His 20s Receives Suspended Sentence for Repeated Abuse of Junior Navy Soldiers

Sentenced to 1 Year and 6 Months in Prison, Suspended for 3 Years

"Repeated Offenses Show Egregious Conduct, No Settlement Reached"

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A man in his 20s who repeatedly assaulted and abused junior soldiers during his military service has received a suspended prison sentence.

According to Yonhap News on June 2, Judge Woo Sangbeom, presiding judge of the 6th Criminal Division at the Changwon District Court, sentenced Mr. A, who was indicted on charges including special assault and violation of the Military Criminal Act, to one year and six months in prison, suspended for three years.

Mr. A was accused of assaulting and abusing junior soldiers while serving at the Naval Education and Training Command in Jinhae-gu, Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, from July 2023 to January 2024.

Investigations revealed that Mr. A struck junior soldiers on their buttocks with an aluminum broom and forced them to eat nine cups of instant noodles because they ate frozen food without his permission.

He was also found to have repeatedly assaulted and abused junior soldiers by punching a junior soldier in the stomach during exercise without any particular reason and by instructing a fellow soldier on duty not to allow more than five seconds of silence in conversation.

Mr. A was discharged from the military in January 2024. In November of last year, he was sentenced to one year and six months in prison, suspended for three years, for charges including forcible molestation of military personnel, and the verdict was finalized.

The court stated, "In determining the sentence, we considered that he repeatedly committed these acts against junior soldiers in the same unit, which is egregious, and that no settlement was reached with the victims."

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